Lacing device



P. Y.ANTORNY.

LACING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19. 1916.

1,330,615. Patented Feb. 10,1920.

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ATTORNEYS PIER/RE YANTQRNY, OF PARIS, ERA-NOE.

V IIACING DEVICE:

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed December 19, 1918. Serial No. 137,814.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PIERRE YAN'roRNY, of 26 Place Vendme, Paris, in the Republic of France, bootmaker, have invented Improvements in Lacing Devices, of which the following is a'full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in laced boots and shoes and is applicable more especially to boots and shoes of superior quality.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 shows, in side view, a shoe with the loops applied and partly laced;

Fig. 2 is a front view of the same shoe;

Fig. 3 is a side view, to a larger scale, of

several loops applied to the border of a part of a boot;

Fig. 4: is a front view from above, of a shoe showing the tongue fixed to the interior of one of the sides of the said shoe.

In these figures:

a designates the boot and a one of the sides in the interior of which is fixed the tongue by sewing, stabbing or stitching.

b, bdesignate theloops, which may be larger or smaller; they may be placed near together and opposite to each other in such a manner as to form an interrupted line as shown in the drawing, or they can be more or less spaced relatively to each other. These loops can be of any form of any suit able material, rigid or flexible, but they are preferably crescent-shaped and made of leather, skin, silk or of the same or .analogous material to that forming the lace, in order to allow the exterior of the boot or shoe to have the same color or shade and to preserve its elegant appearance.

0 indicates the lining and c the tongue formed integrally with it and generally designed to be sewn by hand or machine at one side under one of the sides of the boot or shoe at the same time as the lining is sewn.

The boots or shoes provided with the above improvements have the following advantages:

The eyelets being dispensed with, rain can no longer penetrate into the boots or shoes, the underside of the loops being covered by the lining and moreover the small holes interior of the latter is dispensed with; consequently there is less pressure on the instep; further the two edges of the boot or shoe join perfectly, the lace no longer passing alternately to the interior and the exterior; consequently gaping open is no longer produced such as generally occurs between each two eyelets in existing boots and shoes.

The loops having a more or less elongated form preserve the shape of flat laces, while circular eyelets have the disadvantage of rolling and thickening the lace if it is larger than the eyelet and give it the appearance of a thick ungraceful cord.

The loops being preferably of flexible material, the wear of the laces is appreciably reduced.

In the event of a ,lace breaking, it can be replaced without its being necessary to take off the boot, the lace being entirely on the exterior.

For boots, the doing away with the eyelets enables the size of the facings to be reduced, which increases the lightness and graceful appearance of the boot without impairing its strength. 1

Claims.

1. A lacing device for shoes having the upper thereof provided with a strai ht slit dividing the same into right and left sec tions having straight meeting edges, said lacing device consisting of a series of elongated crescent shaped flexible loops, each loop rigidly secured at each end only upon the outer face of said sections, and the crown of each loop extending toward the straight meeting edges, said series of loops constituting substantially parallel rows of open loops lying entirely within the straight meeting edge of each section, whereby the said meeting edges may be brought completely together and in contact with each other, and whereby fiat laces threaded through the loops will be prevented from rolling or folding.

2. In articles of wearing apparel, the combination with two sections having straight meeting edges, of rows of lacing loops on and projecting toward said meeting edges.

the outer face of each section parallel with The foregoing specification of my im- 10 the straight meeting edges, each row includprovements in lacing devices signed by me ing a plurality of elongated are shaped fleX- this twenty-fifth day of November 1916.

5 ible open loops rigidly secured at each end PIERRE YANTORNY.

only to the outer face of each section, the Witnesses: crown of the loops lying Well Within the CHAS. P. PREssLY,

said straight meeting edges of the sections FRANgoIs VEBER. 

